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Doug Dorst
Doug Dorst at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Doug Dorst at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
OccupationWriter, Instructor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Iowa
GenreFiction
Website
dougdorst.com

Doug Dorst is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor. Dorst is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He is the current director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Dorst is the author of the novel Alive in Necropolis, a runner-up for the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, winner of the Emperor Norton Award, and San Francisco's 2009 One City One Book selection. His collection The Surf Guru (also on Riverhead Books) was well-received and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. October 2013 saw the release of S., a novel Dorst wrote in collaboration with Lost co-creator J. J. Abrams.[1]

Dorst was a three-time Jeopardy! winner[2] and competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.[3]

  1. ^ "Tim Molloy - J. J. Abrams Gets Book Deal With 'Alive in Necropolis' Author Doug Dorst - The Wrap". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  2. ^ S., by J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst, "About the Authors," Melcher Media, 2013.
  3. ^ "J! Archive - Doug Dorst".

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